Keeping an eye on Communist, Totalitarian China, and its influence both globally, and we as Canadians. I have come to the opinion that we are rarely privy to truth regarding the real goal, the agenda of China, it's ambitions for Canada [including special focus on the UK, US & Australia]. No more can we trust the legacy media as there appears to be increasing censorship applied to the topic of communist China. I ask why. Here is what I find.
CCP's Interference of the Aboriginals of BC/very concerning for Canada
Feb 14 2026
Reports from Canadian intelligence and media investigations indicate that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is actively targeting Indigenous communities and leaders in British Columbia and across Canada as part of a broader strategy to influence Canadian natural resources and politics. These activities are viewed as a serious national security concern, with intelligence indicating efforts to cultivate relationships with First Nations leaders to secure access to critical minerals, land, and energy projects.
Evidence shows that the People's Republic of China (PRC) has targeted Canadian natural resources and subnational governments—including in British Columbia—through influence operations that seek to cultivate relationships with Indigenous leaders.
Based on Canadian intelligence and the 2024 Foreign Interference Commission, here are the key aspects of China's interference regarding resources and Indigenous groups in BC:
Targeting Indigenous Leadership: A 2019 National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) report, cited in the Hogue Commission evidence, indicates that Beijing seeks to build relationships with Indigenous leaders under false pretenses. The goal is to control or gain access to strategic natural resources in areas of increasing geopolitical importance, such as northern Canada.
Methodology of Influence: Intelligence suggests that agents of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leverage "united front" operations—organizations designed to influence foreign actors—to approach Indigenous officials and leaders.
Soft Targets Strategy: CSIS has identified subnational governments, including provincial, municipal, and Indigenous levels, as "soft targets" for foreign interference. These levels of government are targeted because they often have fewer resources to detect interference compared to federal agencies.
Broader Interference Context: These actions are part of a larger, systemic effort by China to meddle in Canadian affairs, which includes influencing municipal elections in BC (such as in Vancouver) and targeting diaspora communities for intimidation.
Supply Chain Concerns: There have been reports linking Xinjiang forced labor to Canadian fishery and solar supply chains, which are relevant to BC's economic activities.
The 2019 report noted that while this area of interference is less explored than others, it represents a significant national security concern.
Public Enquiry in the Political Interference [PDF] The Report: https://foreigninterferencecommission.ca/fileadmin/foreign_interference_commission/Documents/Submissions/Final_Submissions/2024-11-04_-_Concern_Group.pdf
Foreign interference: CSIS told B.C. premier it can’t share intelligence, documents show
British Columbia Premier Premier David Eby in Delta, B.C., April 27, 2023 Canada’s intelligence service told B.C. PremierDavid Ebyduring a briefing on Chinese foreign interference in March that it will not share secret information, according to notes of the meeting obtained by Global News. Trust was at issue with Eby.
The hour-long March 28 meeting between the premier and the regional director general of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service [CSIS] followed a news report that China had meddled in Vancouver’s 2022 mayoral election.
The notes of the meeting show that while the premier wanted to know more so his government could respond with policies and legislation, the CSIS official explained his agency reported only to “one client”: the federal government.
Otherwise, CSIS was prohibited by law from disclosing classified intelligence, the official said. “The province doesn’t know what the province doesn’t know,” the official added, according to notes taken by the premier’s staff.
The meeting highlighted what some see as a critical weakness in Canada’s fight against foreign interference: although provincial and municipal governments are key targets of China, they are not in the intelligence loop.
Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protester holds a sign in front of pro-China counter-protesters in Vancouver, Aug. 17, 2019.
With their control of strategic natural resources and significant Chinese Canadian communities, B.C. and Ontario in particular are at the front lines of China’s efforts to remake Canada as a more pro-Beijing dominion.
But as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s special rapporteur on foreign interference, David Johnston, wrote in his first report, the provinces do not receive classified intelligence.
“Intelligence about foreign interference is gathered at the federal level and disseminated at the federal level, but is not disseminated to provincial or lower levels of government,” he wrote.
He called for the gap to be “robustly addressed” because Canada’s adversaries recognized that politicians outside Ottawa had significant powers and climbed from provincial and local government to federal politics.
Johnston’s report was controversial due to his long-standing relationship with the Trudeau family and his resignation in June, but his view is in line with experts who spoke to Global News.
The CSIS meeting
At his meeting with the CSIS official, Eby raised the lack of intelligence sharing, according to the notes. He said one of the top “challenges” was that “you may get info” about B.C. elections.
Another concern was money service businesses, which have been widely linked to money laundering in the province. “Everyone knew except us. How do we id. that info so we can act on it?”
He said he needed information so the province could respond to threats.
“How do we find out what type of info you’re sharing and what tools we need to address it,” according to the hand-written notes, released under B.C.’s freedom of information law.
RCMP visited the Wenzhou Friendship Society in Richmond, B.C., last December as part of an investigation into the Chinese government’s foreign interference campaign.
The notes quoted the CSIS official as having said the agency was “figuring out a mechanism” for having national security conversations with “a well-placed individual or team in B.C.”
He told the premier that Ontario had a provincial security advisor’s office that worked with federal agencies on national security issues. Eby’s office did not respond when asked whether one was being considered for B.C.
The premier said he would “designate someone on our side,” and asked to meet CSIS director David Vigneault. The CSIS official responded that the director “will come out and speak to you,” but his answers “won’t be different.”
CSIS Act needs to change, expert says
In a statement to Global News, CSIS said that although it was not authorized to disclose classified intelligence outside the government of Canada, it was trying to help politicians at other levels defend against foreign interference.
“We have provided personal security briefings and general threat briefings to elected officials across Canada and in 2022 alone, CSIS briefed 26 elected provincial officials about the foreign interference threat,” said spokesperson Lindsay Sloane.
NDP MP Jenny Kwan speaks to reporters about her briefing with CSIS, where she was told she was a target of foreign interference, May 29, 2023.
But Prof. Dennis Molinaro, an intelligence expert at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, said briefings can be vague and give advice on only general or broad threats.
“Sometimes they may offer some specifics but no details, which doesn’t really help the receiver of the information decide what they need to do to mitigate a threat,” Molinaro said.
Currently, intelligence can be shared only with federal or law enforcement agencies, he said, adding that the CSIS Act needed to be amended so the intelligence service could share what it knows more broadly.
The provinces will also have to make changes. If they haven’t already done so, they will need to build secure communications systems so they can receive classified intelligence.
Until then, without knowing specifics, provincial politicians may struggle to understand how China is attempting to manipulate Canada to its advantage, and what they should do about it.
They may also not take CSIS warnings as seriously as they might, were they better informed.
Are “people working for you or against you,” the notes of Eby’s meeting with the CSIS official recorded the premier as saying, under the heading Politician. “Most don’t know.”
RCMP confirms more than 100 foreign interference inquiries, including threats of elected officials
Asked about the matter, Eby said in a statement to Global News: “I appreciate the discussion that I had with the regional director of CSIS where I was able to express the obvious need for the provincial government to receive important and relevant information regarding events taking place in our province.”
“I look forward to the federal government considering an approach that can achieve this while maintaining the confidentiality of intelligence-based materials.”
Provincial governments are targets
While federal elections have dominated the recent debate over foreign interference, provincial and local officials have also found themselves in the crosshairs of the Chinese Communist Party.
Politicians from all levels of government have been spotted at events hosted by organizations suspected of fronting for Beijing, including some linked to the so-called police stations China operated in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.
In Ontario, MPP Vincent Ke resigned from the Conservative caucus on March 10 after Global News reported he was part of an attempt to interfere in the 2019 federal elections — an allegation he denied.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said CSIS briefed his office about the matter but that the agency was “very secretive” and “they don’t give you a proper briefing in my opinion.”
“With CSIS, everything’s a big secret,” he said.
Deputy Markham Mayor Michael Chan’s meetings with Chinese officials have also caught the attention of CSIS, Global News and the Globe and Mail have reported.
The former Ontario Liberal cabinet minister and federal Liberal fundraiser has denied any wrongdoing and is suing CSIS and two reporters, alleging he is a victim of racism.
B.C.’s ‘outsized’ relationship with China
B.C. is likewise considered vulnerable to foreign interference, owing partly to what a de-classified document released by the province called its “outsized relationship with China compared to other provinces.”
The document, “BC Engagement with China and Taiwan,” noted that the province had a significant volume of exports as well as “diverse Chinese diaspora communities (over 500,000).”
The province also has strong ties with Taiwan, with 43 per cent of Canada’s exports to the island nation originating in B.C., making it the province’s sixth largest export market, the document said.
China considers Taiwan to be a breakaway republic and wants to bring it under Beijing’s control. Pushing that view outside China is one of the goals of the PRC’s foreign interference campaign.
MP Michael Chong testifies on allegations China targeted family, was unaware until news report
The newspaper article was sourced to a CSIS report that reportedly said the then-consul general, Tong Xiaoling, had groomed Beijing-friendly Chinese Canadians to run for office in Vancouver.
On the day the article was published, B.C. Deputy Solicitor General Douglas Scott wrote in an email that the issue was “not naturally part of our mandate, however, we are looking into it.”
“Further to this,” he added two hours later, “the director of policing will be in touch with the BC RCMP commander and let him know this issue is of real concern to the province.”
He said “our team” would meet with CSIS to “relay the same message.”
Conservative MP urges Ottawa to ban Chinese state broadcaster from airwaves
CGTN is spreading 'disinformation, propaganda' in Canada, says Michael Chong
People walk past the CCTV headquarters building, the home of Chinese state-run television network CCTV and its overseas arm CGTN, in Beijing on Feb. 4, 2021 A Conservative MP is renewing calls for the federal government to ban authoritarian state broadcasters, including the China Global Television Network.
"CGTN, China's authoritarian state-controlled broadcaster, is still operating here, spreading disinformation, propaganda and violating international human rights laws," said Michael Chong, the Conservative foreign affairs critic, during a parliamentary committee hearing Monday night.
As the Toronto Star has reported, the international human rights organization Safeguard Defenders lodged a complaint with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) back in 2019 against China Global Television Network (CGTN) and China Central Television's Chinese-language international channel CCTV-4.
Safeguard Defenders alleges the two networks have aired the forced confessions of 60 people who were detained by Chinese authorities — including the organization's director, Peter Dahlin.
Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong rises during question period in Ottawa on Nov. 14, 2022. During Monday's committee hearing, Chong asked Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino why the federal government hasn't issued an order under section seven of the Broadcasting Act, which permits the government to issue general policy directions to the CRTC.
Mendicino said that while he shares Chong's "profound concerns about the distribution of any kind of disinformation," the CRTC is an independent body.
Chong pointed out that the government asked the CRTC to review the licence of the state-controlled Russian television network RT just last year.The regulator later removed RT (formerly known as Russia Today) and RT France from its list of non-Canadian programming services and stations that are allowed to broadcast in this country.
"I would hope it doesn't take a war for the government to change its position on state-controlled authoritarian broadcasters on public, Crown-owned airwaves," Chong said.
When asked if the government would consider Chong's request, a spokesperson for Heritage Minster Pablo Rodriguez again stated that the CRTC is meant to be independent.
"It is not, and should never be, up to the government to decide which channel is authorized and which is not," said Laura Scaffidi.
"It is up to the independent regulator, the CRTC, to consult with Canadians and make those decisions in Canada's best interest."
'There's no excuse'
Chong told CBC News the government's response has been "baffling."
He said he wants to see the CRTC adopt a general policy of denying broadcast applications from authoritarian state media entities.
"We're calling on the government to direct the CRTC to a new broadcasting policy of general application that authoritarian state controlled broadcasters, which spread propaganda and disinformation and which violate international human rights law, should not be on the list," said Chong. "There's no excuse."
Chong said that while he knows RT's reports are still available online — and CGTN's content would be as well if the CRTC banned it from broadcasting — the government is under no obligation to give these outlets a public platform.
CRTC needs a 'backbone,' says rights group
Dahlin of Safeguard Defenders said the organization fears its complaint to the CRTC is going nowhere.
"It is our view that the best way to deal with CCTV, CGTN and other similar abusive TV broadcasters is to let CRTC do their job, according to established procedures," he said.
"But that, of course, requires a regulator with both will, determination and a backbone, and soon one might suspect that CRTC are lacking in that department.
"There is seemingly something holding CRTC back, but as outsiders, we do not know what that may be."
A spokesperson for the CRTC said the regulator is still working on Safeguard Defenders' complaint.
"Given the file is still open, we cannot comment further at this time," said Frédéric Lamaute.
CBC News has requested comment from CGTN but has not received a response.
U.K. regulator suspended CGTN's licence
Britain's broadcasting and telecommunications regulator Ofcom suspended CGTN's broadcast licence in 2021 after it concluded the news network was controlled by the Chinese Communist party, a violation of U.K. broadcasting laws.
A few months later, it fined Star China Media Limited — which owned the U.K. licence for CGTN — £200,000 (about $349,000 Cdn) for unfair treatment of individuals on its programmes following two separate complaints.
Ofcom concluded that airing the forced confession of Simon Cheng, a former official at the British consulate in Hong Kong, was a serious breach of the U.K.'s licensing code.
Chinese police claimed the Hong Kong citizen had been detained for "soliciting prostitutes" and aired an alleged confession.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, left, and director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) David Vigneault, right, wait to appear before the Special Committee on Canada-People's Republic of China Relationship (CACN) on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday. Cheng said he was beaten, blindfolded, deprived of sleep, chained spread-eagle and repeatedly interrogated by the Chinese secret police about the U.K.'s supposed role in Hong Kong's protests.
The daughter of Gui Minhai, a Hong Kong bookseller who holds Swedish citizenship, filed the other successful complaint.
In 2020, Gui was sentenced to 10 years in jail for "illegally providing intelligence overseas." CGTN aired footage of Gui appearing to express regret for his actions.
In 2020, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) warned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that China's efforts to distort the news and influence media outlets in Canada "have become normalized."
"Chinese-language media outlets operating in Canada and members of the Chinese-Canadian community are primary targets of PRC-directed foreign influenced activities," says a briefing note obtained through an access to information request.
As of Jan. 1, 2022, four CCTV channels were on the CRTC's authorized non-Canadian programming list: CCTV 9 Documentary, CCTV English News, CCTV Entertainment Channel, CCTV-4 and CCTV-Français.
The West has discovered that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has wielded Confucius Institutes to covertly infiltrate American education.That was merely the prelude to an aggressive acquisition spree targeting UK and US institutions since 2014. The result: A substantial number of private K-12 schools, colleges, and universities in the UK and US are now owned, operated, and controlled by the CCP.
I. Private Schools Acquired by Chinese Entities in the United Kingdom and the United States
Those engaged in the polemical discourse over liberal versus conservative educational paradigms may soon confront a sobering reality: control over these institutions is progressively being relinquished to Communist China. The CCP has methodically directed its corporate instruments to acquire educational establishments across the American, British, and other free-world domains, executing a calculated strategy of global expansion.
In 2015, Achieve Education Ltd., a Chinese entity, acquired Chase Grammar School, one of Britain’s premier private institutions, established in 1879. {1} In 2017, the same firm procured Abbotsholme School, a distinguished co-educational independent day and boarding school founded in 1889. {2} That same year, Confucius International Education Group assumed control of Riddlesworth Hall Preparatory School in Norfolk, where Princess Diana was educated from 1971 to 1975. Additionally, in 2017, the Wanda Group, a Chinese conglomerate with diverse interests in technology, real estate, hospitality, and media, acquired Ipswich High School (established in 1878) and Bedstone College, an independent boarding and day school (founded in 1948), through the London-based asset manager London & Oxford Group. {3}
In 2017, Full Circle Education, a Shenzhen-based Chinese company, acquired St. Bees School, a 439-year-old UK independent school founded in 1583, through a strategic partnership. {4} That same year, China Financial Services Holdings Ltd. purchased Thetford Grammar School, a 908-year-old institution founded in 1114, making it one of Britain’s oldest schools. {5}In 2018, Ray Education Group acquired Adcote School for Girls, an independent day and boarding school established in 1907, and Myddelton College, a former girls’ school founded in 1859. {6}
Between 2018 and 2019, China’s own Bright Scholar Education Group snatched up four distinguished UK private schools and colleges in a bold expansion. In 2018, it secured Bournemouth Collegiate School, a storied boarding school founded in 1895. {7}In June 2019, the group shelled out £38 million to acquire St. Michael’s School, established in 1923, and Bosworth Independent College, a vibrant co-educational boarding school launched in 1977. {8} Capping off its buying spree, Bright Scholar scooped up CATS Colleges and Stafford House International from the Cambridge Education Group for a hefty £150 million in August 2019. {9}
Table 1. UK schools acquired by Chinese companies between 2014 and 2020.
These CCP-directed Chinese companies are equally diligent in usurping schools in the United States. Consider Primavera Capital, a Chinese investment firm, which in October 2016 acquired Spring Education Group. This was the largest prekindergarten through 12th grade private school operator in America, overseeing over 200 schools under 28 brands across 18 states, including the District of Columbia. {10} In 2017 the same China-based Primavera Capital, utilized a $220 million US loan to procure the Stratford School system, comprising thirty pre-kindergarten to junior high schools in California. {11} Primavera Capital didn’t stop there. In 2018 it snatched up Nobel Learning Communities, which operates over 190 private schools across 19 states in the US and also manages Laurel Springs, an accredited online private school offering college preparatory programs to students in more than 80 countries, worldwide. {12}
Chinese companies are particularly proud of their ownership of America’s historical educational institutions. In October 2015, Fang Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: SFUN), a Chinese real estate internet company, won a bid resulting in the purchase of the prestigious New York Military Academy, former President Donald Trump’s alma mater, under the guise of a nonprofit called the “Research Center on Natural Conservation.” {13} This famed 133-year-old institution, with its notable alumni, made headlines in the premier CCP-operated newspaper People’s Daily, celebrating the acquisition as a strategic triumph in Red dominance. {14}
Chinese companies did not limit their appetite to the Prekindergarten through 12th grade schools. In 2015 Jiahui Education blazed the trail for the acquisition of American universities, starting with Chester College in New England. Chester was a small 60-year-old, private college, converted into a private coeducational boarding and day school, post purchase. It has since then been renamed “Busch Academy,” serving grades 6-12. Noteworthy is the fact that a majority of the students enrolled at the facility, hail from mainland China. {15}
Next on the list is Xinhua Education Investment Corporation. In 2017 it purchased the privately owned, 134-year-old, historically black St. Paul’s College in Lawrenceville, Virginia. A year later it purchased the Daniel Webster College in New Hampshire, a former aviation school founded in 1865. {16}
The acquisition of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1920, by China’s Kaiwen Education Group sparked significant controversy. This renowned music academy, celebrated for its advanced training of singers, music teachers, pianists, conductors, and other music professionals, became a high-profile target in the CCP’s expanding reach into US higher education.
Kaiwen Education Group, originally Jiangsu Zhongtai Bridge Steel Structure, had no academic background before its foray into education. Emerging as a successful private company in China’s affluent Jiangsu Province, it drew the CCP’s attention and, in 2016, came under direct control of the Haidian District (Beijing) People’s Government State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, while maintaining the facade of a “private company.” In 2017, it pivoted to education, rebranding as Kaiwen Education Group in January 2018 – just in time for its $40 million acquisition of Westminster Choir College later that year. Despite fierce opposition, including multiple lawsuits from the college’s staff, the acquisition proceeded, marking a bold step in the CCP’s educational influence. {17}
Aside from the aforementioned acquisitions, Chinese companies now also own West Hartford Campus of University of Connecticut (established in 1881), Virginia Intermont College (founded in 1884), and Bay State College in Boston (founded in 1946), and Dowling College in New York (established in 1968). {18}
Table 2. US schools acquired by Chinese companies between 2015 and 2021
II. Who Are These Chinese Companies? And Their Motives?
Should we be alarmed by the CCP’s aggressive acquisitions of British and American schools across the West?
1. A closer look at these Chinese companies reveals troubling patterns. Consider Bright Scholar Education Group, which acquired four UK private schools between 2018 and 2019. This entity is a spinoff of Country Garden Group, a Chinese parent company that operates more like a Communist Party extension than a typical private enterprise, as its structure suggests. The name “Bright Scholar Education Group” projects an air of academic legitimacy, despite the company’s lack of prior experience in managing educational institutions. In 2005, Country Garden Group’s owner and CEO, Yang Guoqiang, appointed his daughter, Yang Huiyan, to lead Bright Scholar. A graduate of Ohio State University with a degree in marketing and logistics, and a high school alumnus of the UK, Yang Huiyan’s appointment underscores the company’s strategic pivot toward global education. {19}
Yang Guoqiang, the influential founder of Country Garden Group, holds a prominent role as a member of the 12th and 13th National Committees of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the Communist Party’s elite advisory council comprising representatives from various sectors. This tight integration blurs any line between private enterprise and government control.
Country Garden Group has been hailed by the CCP as a model private enterprise, “operating in complete alignment with Communist Party beliefs and core values,” according to China’s state-run media 21 Economic Net. The outlet praised the company for employing a robust network of CCP loyalists, boasting “633 party branches with nearly 30,000 members, including 832 PhDs, 83 percent of whom are 35 or younger.” These branches exist solely to embed CCP ideology, practices, and propaganda within the company, creating a self-reinforcing echo chamber.
Yang, often dubbed the “Godfather,” openly champions the “Red CCP gene” of “Love the CCP and Love the Country,” embedding these principles as the cornerstone of Country Garden’s corporate culture.
Country Garden Group, a so-called “private enterprise” managing educational institutions in the UK and US, operates more like a CCP-aligned cult than an independent company. In 2021, its party committee marked the CCP’s 100th anniversary by launching the “Five 100 Projects” initiative to: {20}
Establish 100 exemplary CCP branches,
Honor 100 model CCP members,
Create 100 CCP-branded building projects,
Deliver 100 elite party education classes led by party secretaries, and
Recognize 100 “good deeds” by party members.
Mo Bin, Country Garden’s President and Party Committee Secretary, views “loving the CCP and unwavering patriotism” as the baseline for hiring talent. {21} He boldly stated that the company aims to “convert key staff into CCP members, groom them as the company’s backbone, and train these loyalists to rise as corporate executives.” {22} In essence, only those most devoted to the CCP are fast-tracked for leadership roles.
2. Ray Education Group, another Chinese company, owns two UK schools: Adcote School for Girls and Myddelton College. Its President and CCP Committee Secretary for his district, Hu Jing, is a staunch CCP loyalist who aligns the company’s operations with Party directives. In a 2019 interview with Chinese state-run media, Hu emphasized that his business adheres to the CCP’s “political, educational, and economic laws.” He declared, “No matter how international the school appears, it remains fundamentally a Chinese [Communist Party] school, bound by the Party’s political framework.” Hu further revealed plans to establish a Ray Education Group branch in Shanghai, with the immediate priority of forming a corporate CCP committee and appointing a Party Secretary to ensure ideological control. {23}
Education Group’s website directly states it has launched its “Global Campus program in response to Xi Jinping’s 2021 ‘Belt Road Initiative (BRI).’” Under the company website’s “International Market” section, Ray Education plans on “relying on British brand schools to target expansion in ‘Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, South Africa, Nigeria, and other countries.’” {24} This global push carries the CCP’s ideology, embedding its influence far beyond China’s borders.
3. Dalian Jiahui Education Development Group, which acquired Chester College in New England, carries a troubling “Red” legacy rooted in its CCP ties. In mainland China, Jiahui Education’s Chairman and Chief Principal, Wang Guangfa, founded Beijing Fazheng Industrial Group Co., Ltd. in 1993. Wang doubles as the Party Committee Secretary while leading the Fazheng Group, underscoring the deep integration of CCP ideology within the company’s leadership. {25}
Wang Guangfa’s fervent commitment to the CCP shone through during the Party’s centennial celebration in June 2021. Leading CCP members at the event, he guided them in renewing their oath of loyalty, passionately rededicating their lives to the Party. {26} The 100th-anniversary festivities featured members singing Red folk songs exalting the CCP and recounting tales of Party heroism with intense, almost cult-like devotion.
Wang, serving as the leader of the Beijing Royal School, staunchly champions the integration of the CCP’s red education policies into its K-12 curriculum. He declared, “From infancy, children will gradually inherit the excellent revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture.”
Why wage war for dominance if a bloodless coup can be achieved via a methodical takeover of an enemy country’s educational system, re-educating the youth in one generation, without a single shot fired?
Wang proudly touts how the Beijing Royal School embeds CCP ideology, patriotism, and national defense training throughout its organization and curriculum, from kindergarten to high school. Core components include participating in CCP flag-raising ceremonies, touring Red Education Museums, viewing Party propaganda films, studying “the deeds of revolutionary ancestors,” and attending military camps. These elements, mandated by the CCP as essential for patriotic and national defense education, weave the Party’s ideology seamlessly into the school’s culture, shaping students’ worldviews from an early age. {27}
In 2019, on behalf of the Fazheng Group and the Fourth Branch of the Beijing Armed Police Corps, Wang signed the “Military and Civilian Construction Fund Cooperative Agreement,” pledging 1 million yuan in company funds, each year to support continued expansion of army capabilities. In 2021, he received praise for his “great efforts to build up the People’s Liberation Army.”
Wang also ensures the Beijing Royal School is open for instruction to families of officers and soldiers. In exchange, military officers and soldiers provide students with “patriotic education” aligned with CCP goals. {28}
To dispel the notion that “Red Education” exports are isolated incidents, consider the following striking example of this ongoing trend.
4. Xinhua Education Investment Corporation, the parent company to China Oriental Education, owns Saint Paul’s College in Virginia and Daniel Webster College in New Hampshire. The corporation is following suit with equally “Red” dogma. To celebrate the CCP’s centennial anniversary in June 2021, the Party Committee of Xinhua Education Group launched various campaigns honoring the Party: {29}
Conducting the “Hundred Colleges Celebrating the Centennial” campaign “to pass down the Red Genes,”
Mobilizing 100 colleges and universities across the country to carry out “Hundred Schools Jointly Presenting Gifts” to the CCP, and
Organizing “Hundred Schools Reading the Party History,” ” Hundred Schools Forming [the] Symbol of Party Flag,” and ” Hundred Schools Singing a Red Song.”
The fervor for Party loyalty extends to China Oriental Education, a spinoff of Xinhua, which credits its achievements to the CCP’s guidance. Its website declares, “Since its founding, China Oriental Education Group has thrived under Party leadership, nurturing over 2 million skilled graduates for society. By weaving Party principles into every facet of school management, administration, and curricula, the group ensures unwavering alignment with CCP priorities, fostering an environment where students flourish.” The group also launched an online “Red Voice Museum” to inspire teachers and students across China to “cherish the Red Story” and “inherit the Red Gene.” {30} Will this CCP dogma be exported to schools overseas?
5. The Kaiwen Education Group’s recent acquisition of Westminster Choir College in New Jersey is inextricably linked to the CCP. Indeed, following its notable success in 2015, Kaiwen underwent state-directed economic subsumption by the CCP, a standard practice in China’s planned economy where thriving corporations are absorbed into the state’s economic and ideological framework, becoming extensions of Communist philosophy and entirely at the state’s disposal. Chairman and CEO Wang Weiqing, an active CCP party member, serves as the Deputy Party Secretary of the Party Committee of the Joint Headquarters of the Middle School Affiliated with Renmin University. If that is not a mouthful, there is more! He also serves as the Party Secretary to the Second Branch of the Middle School Affiliated to Renmin University and is the school principal at the Graduate Training Center in Haidian District in Beijing. {31}
Kaiwen Education Group’s bylaws clearly state: “The company (must) establish a Party branch. The Party branch has 1 branch secretary and several other branch members.” “The Party branch recommends nominees to the Board of Directors and the General Manager. Any candidates nominated by the board will be deliberated and observed by the party. [And the party will] provide recommendations and fulfill the responsibility to manage and strengthen the graduates.” {32}
Kaiwen Education’s website reveals that its controlling shareholder, Badachu Holding Group Co., Ltd., is owned by the CCP, with the Haidian District People’s Government State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission as its “actual controlling party.” {33} In essence, Kaiwen is not merely an extension of the CCP but a government-run entity masquerading as a private corporation.
6. Ambow Education Group, now the parent company of Bay State College in Boston, actively seeks to align with the CCP’s agenda. Dr. Huang Jin, its President and CEO, earned a joint PhD from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and UC Berkeley in 1994. She founded Ambow Corporation in Silicon Valley in 1997, then relocated it to China in 1999. {34} She is also the Vice President of Beijing’s Regional European and American Alumni Association, a CCP controlled organizational asset, arguably well positioned to mine and enlist alumni for CCP needs. In Beijing’s European and American Alumni Association – Professional Committee, Huang Jin serves as Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. {35}
What do we know about China’s alumni and other academic associations? For starters, the CCP oversees all European and American Alumni Associations. This includes all student associations with Chinese members, whether it be in mainland China or abroad. Founded in 1913, the European and American Alumni Association is a massive organization and network of students returning to mainland China after studying abroad. It soon went under the CCP’s control. Nowadays, this association is directly under the control of the Secretariat of theCCP’s Central Committee and the CCP United Front Work Department. In 2003, it was renamed the “Chinese Overseas Students Association.” {36}
To celebrate the CPP’s 100th anniversary, Huang Jin hosted the June 2021 event for “Western Returned Scholars Association Expert Lecture Series – A Century of Studying Abroad Under the Party Flag.” The event was reportedly hailed to be “at the great and critical moment of the 100th anniversary of the CCP’s founding, and it has great significance to organize the ‘European and American Alumni Association Expert Lecture Hall.’” A month later, Huang Jin was invited to attend the Tiananmen viewing ceremony to celebrate the CCP’s centennial. This would be the fifth time Huang was invited to attend the Tiananmen viewing ceremony since her return to China from the US in 1999. {37}
7. What makes China Orient Asset Management Co., Ltd.’s recent purchase of Dowling College in New York so interesting? Maybe the fact that the buying company is under the direct control of the Chinese government. China Orient Asset Management Co., Ltd. is a Chinese central financial enterprise authorized by the Chinese State Council while jointly established by the nation’s Ministry of Finance and the National Council for Social Security Fund. Just imagine running a college in Beijing by a US company authorized by the US Federal Reserve, while jointly established by the US Department of Treasury and US Social Security administration. The website of the China Orient Asset Management Co., Ltd. states that “the company adheres to the leadership of the CCP and earnestly implements central government policies.” {38} There is little doubt the “Red Gene” permeates all aspects of the government-controlled corporation. The question is how overtly is the ideology deployed in New York’s Dowling College?
8. The “Red Gene” is being similarly exported to Canada, thanks to the Chaoyin Education Group. With already eight private schools in Qingdao, Shandong Province (in China), it opened its first Canadian school – Chaoyin International School in Richmond, British Columbia – in September 2021. This is Chaoyin Education Group’s first foray in educational administration in Canada. The school offers instruction from kindergarten through 7th grade. To nobody’s surprise, well before the start of the semester, teachers were advised to “tread lightly” regarding topics pertaining to the CCP, Tiananmen Square Massacre, and the Dalai Lama. {39}
9. China’s relentless pursuit of Western education is a deliberate crusade to spread CCP ideology, known as the “Red Gene.” Unlike historical battles fought with swords and guns, today’s conflicts harness social media influencers and information warfare. The fervor of Chinese CEOs remains unchecked, exemplified by Primavera Capital’s founder, Fred Hu, who openly boasts, “I’m so biased toward China, they call me Red Fred, Red Fred.” {40}
10. Let’s not forget the Confucius International Education Group, a CCP-aligned entity, now owns Riddlesworth Hall Preparatory School in Norfolk, UK, once attended by Princess Diana. {41} Similarly, Shanxi Junzi Education Investment acquired Abbots Bromley School. Both institutions have been leveraged by the CCP to advance its Belt and Road Initiative, extending the Party’s global influence through education. {42}
III. Why Should the West Be Concerned?
Some people unfamiliar with the CCP’s nature may view the CCP as a philanthropist, infusing money to aid Western educational institutions.
Annabel Heseltine, daughter of England’s former deputy Prime Minister, Lord Heseltine, authored a piece in the UK Telegraph. She wrote “the Chinese are buying into our private schools and we should be grateful. (…) It could be the edge our children need.” {43}
Larry Livingston, the interim president of the Westminster Choir College Acquisition Corp chimed in that the Kaiwen Education Group purchase was the only way to save Westminster Choir College, “There’s no other plan which has demonstrated sufficient resources to sustain the enterprise.” {44}
However, it is evident these Chinese companies are not singularly motivated by money. Their acquisitions are strategic investments. When the Kaiwen Education Group was in the process of acquiring the Westminster Choir College in 2018, it invited 40 Westminster students to tour Beijing. The invitation came with numerous strings attached, where “Westminster’s choral director, Joe Miller, was informed before the Beijing tour began that the group’s repertoire needed to be approved in advance by the Chinese government.” {45}
Some individuals, aware of the CCP’s inclination toward world domination, might believe the acquisition of Western schools pose no immediate threat, arguing that the CCP first needs to learn how to manage these institutions effectively, or that it requires time to exploit these Western acquisitions for the Communist Party’s designs. However, this perspective overlooks the CCP’s clear and insidious objective to “liberate” the world from what it deems “oppression” – anything not under its control. The CCP’s infiltration of Western education is not a benign process but a deliberate, strategic maneuver, akin to a silent, spreading cancer that erodes the foundational values of Western civilization.
The Western world needs to awaken to the fact that there is presently no widespread acknowledgement of this Red coup overtaking our educational institutions. The CCP’s infiltration of Free-World education systems continues in this welcoming environment. There is no opposition, no competition, and no stopping their takeover of our children’s education in our own backyards.
As Communist China deploys its Red Education crusade around the globe, the “Red Gene” ideology continues to re-write the DNA of the Free World. The West’s classical Greek philosophy, which has long served as the foundation for our liberal arts university education – rooted in reason, logic, debate, and discussion – will be overwritten. The nations of the Free World will be supplanted by a hive-mind singularity of purpose, dedicated solely to upholding the Communist Party. It is particularly salient that, in 1954, in response to the Communist threat of that era, President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States. In China, the Communist Party replaces God; it supersedes all social ties and relations, is never to be questioned, and is always elevated to the utmost superlative and exalted position. This societal order empowers children to report their parents to the state for thought crimes if they fail to uphold Party ideology. Successful corporations are appropriated by the state, and wealth exists solely to serve and perpetuate The Party. It is deemed better to die perpetuating The Party than to survive and fail.
The CCP operates as a cult. Lenin famously stated, “Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” Do we want all the world’s children to be equally implanted with the Red Genes as they grow up? After CCP-directed Chinese companies purchased their 17th British school, the Daily Mail issued an alarm to its readers, warning that “hundreds of independent schools left in dire financial straits by the coronavirus pandemic are being targeted by Chinese investors.” {46} However, that warning is insufficient. The peril extends beyond the mere risk of Western schools being bought by Chinese investors; more alarmingly, those schools face the danger of being transformed into “Red” institutions that propagate the CCP’s ideology. We urgently need more awakened individuals, educators, media reporters, and policymakers to raise the red flag and take decisive action.
IV. Where Are We Today in 2025?
Since 2021, the CCP’s strategy of acquiring Western educational institutions has continued unabated, with state-owned enterprises and CCP-aligned companies expanding their reach into both the United States and the United Kingdom. {47}
The acquisition of Dowling College’s assets by Stony Brook University in 2024, originally purchased by China Orient Asset Management Co., Ltd., a central State Owned Enterprise (SOE), underscores the direct involvement of Chinese state entities in American education. {48} {49}
China Orient, authorized by the Chinese State Council and jointly established by the Ministry of Finance and the National Council for Social Security Fund, exemplifies the CCP’s use of SOEs to infiltrate and control foreign institutions. {50} {51} This acquisition, celebrated on China Orient’swebsite for its adherence to CCP leadership, raises concerns about the deployment of CCP ideology in New York. {52} {53}
In the UK, the 2023 purchase of d’Overbroeck’s College by Bright Scholar Education Group, a CCP-aligned entity, further illustrates the same pattern. {54} Bright Scholar Education Group’s acquisition of d’Overbroeck’s College was announced in a 2023 press release, confirming its CCP-aligned status through its connection to Country Garden Group. {55} The 2024 acquisition of The Royal School, Haslemere by Beijing Royal School International Education Group, linked to Wang Guangfa, the same aforementioned CCP stalwart, continues this trend, with the school likely to become a vehicle for CCP propaganda and influence. {56} {57}
These acquisitions are not isolated incidents but part of a broader strategy, as seen in the 2022 acquisition of Wycliffe College by Evolvence Knowledge Investments, which has ties to Bright Scholar. {58} According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in their 2024 report titled “China’s Red Gene Strategy”, the think tank stated that “the acquisition of Wycliffe College is part of China’s strategy to export the ‘Red Gene’ ideology.” {59}
Even when US institutions like Bay State College are sold to American entities like Arizona State University (ASU), the original CCP influence through Ambow Education Group remains a concern, given Ambow’s deep ties to the CCP through its leadership and associations. Note the 2023 sale of Bay State College back to ASU is reported by Inside Higher Ed, noting Ambow Education Group’s previous ownership. {60} Ambow’s CCP ties are documented in a 2022 US Senate report on Chinese influence in US education. {61}
The CCP’s relentless pursuit of Western education is a deliberate crusade, leveraging SOEs and CCP-aligned companies to reshape global educational landscapes. The lack of widespread opposition by the West allows this silent coup to proceed, eroding the foundational values of free-world education. As Communist China deploys its Red Education crusade globally, the “Red Gene” ideology continues to rewrite the DNA of the Free World, with State Owned Enterprises at the forefront of this transformation.
We have documented the acquisitions, the motives, and the chilling ideological framework behind them. The question is no longer if this is a threat, but how long we will remain asleep at the wheel, allowing institutions that once defined our civilization to be weaponized against us. This is not a slow creep but a methodical, bloodless coup. We must now decide whether we will defend the foundations of our society or surrender the minds of the next generation without a fight.
